Green candidates getting Green votes

The table below lists in order what percentage of people who gave the Greens their party vote, also gave their electorate vote to the Green candidate.

This isn’t split voting, but it is still interesting to look at. Generally a Green candidate has no chance of winning the seat, so a high level of votes for a Green candidate from their own supporters tends to indicate their high personal standing with their own supporters. It also tends to happen more in seats where they are not marginal.

% of Gre PV voting Gre EV

Coromandel

71.8%

Ilam

57.5%

Northland

55.7%

Taranaki-King Country

55.1%

Hunua

53.6%

Clutha Southland

52.1%

Selwyn

52.0%

Kaikoura

51.7%

Waitaki

50.3%

East Coast Bays

49.6%

Helensville

48.1%

Rongotai

48.0%

Whangarei

47.3%

Tamaki

46.9%

Dunedin North

46.7%

Rodney

45.7%

Waikato

45.4%

Invercargill

43.6%

Taupo

42.2%

Wairarapa

42.1%

Papakura

41.9%

Tauranga

41.8%

Hutt South

41.7%

Mangere

40.2%

North Shore

39.3%

East Coast

39.0%

Tukituki

38.4%

Dunedin South

36.7%

Rangitikei

36.4%

Nelson

35.2%

Wigram

31.4%

Rangitata

31.3%

Te Atatu

31.0%

Mana

30.9%

New Lynn

30.5%

Maungakiekie

30.1%

Northcote

29.9%

Waitakere

29.6%

Mt Roskill

29.5%

Wellington Central

28.9%

Port Hills

28.9%

Christchurch Central

28.5%

Otaki

28.4%

Whanganui

27.5%

West Coast Tasman

26.8%

Rimutaka

26.1%

Mt Albert

26.0%

Epsom

24.7%

Hamilton East

23.9%

Napier

23.6%

Waimakariri

22.8%

Christchurch East

22.4%

Auckland Central

21.6%

Ohariu

21.2%

New Plymouth

21.2%

Palmerston North

20.8%

Catherine Delahunty in Coromandel got a very high 72% of Green voters also giving her their electorate vote. Next was Kennedy Graham in Ilam with 58%. Pauline Evans in Northland also did well with 56%.

The six seats where the Green candidate got under 23% of Green party voters voting for them were Palm North, New Plymouth, Ohariu, Auckland Central, Chch East and Waimakariri – all bar one reasonably marginal seats.

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Comments (5)

These statistics have been fascinating. Especially for Palmerston North, where the numbers about Green voters have been at the extremes. Thanks for providing them, David.

I can tell you why Green voters didn’t give their electorate vote to the Green candidate here though – she was a snide and smarmy academic. I’d say Green did well in the party vote here despite her, not thanks to her efforts in campaigning. It certainly made Green Party voters’ decision to vote for Iain Lees-Galloway rather easy, in my opinion.

So you’re telling us, essentially, that Catherine Delahunty is very very popular with Green voters. Amazing, given that during the campaign she was seen as their biggest liability and effectively exiled from it.

alwyn

I suspect that in the Coromandel electorate the Green supporters had been indulging a little too freely in the areas best known crop before they voted.
In Ohariu on the other hand they were probably not stoned and had seen what a little nitwit the Green candidate was.